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Mathematicism is any opinion, viewpoint, and/or school of thought/philosophy that states that everything can be described/defined/modelled ultimately by mathematics, and/or that the universe & reality (both material & mental/spiritual) are fundamentally/fully/only mathematical, i.e. that ‘everything is mathematics’ (necessitating the ideas of logic/reason & mind/spirit, as mathematical rationalist idealist/mentalist/spiritualist monism.) Mathematicism started in the West with ancient Greece's Pythagoreanism, and continued in other rationalist idealist schools of thought such as Platonism.

Mathematicism includes (but isn't limited to) the following (chronological order)

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  1. ^ Hockney, Mike. The God Series. Hyperreality Books, 2015. 32 vols.